The Journey

I am sitting here just a few minutes before church time with one of my contacts messing up.  The though keeps occurring to me of the danger of doing things while our vision is blurry.  So get out the saline clean the contact, fix the focus so that you can move forward into the fullness [...]

Ran across this quote and found it interesting…
“Every church has three animals in the flock:  sheep, goats, and wolves.  The job of Biblical leadership is simple:
Love the sheep.
Convert the goats.
Kill the wolves.”
–Anonymous

The climber Joe Simpson faced an apparently insurmountable challenge: getting down from Peru’s Siula Grande, in ice and snow, with a smashed and useless leg.  He lived to tell the tale – in the bestselling “Touching The Void” – at least in part because of a mind game he played with himself.  He broke the [...]

John D. Craig, in Danger Is My Business, tells us that the wooly tiger of Siberia is not a man-eater by nature.  This tiger has more strength, cunning, speed, and courage than any other member of the cat tribe.  It is said that if you see one and stand perfectly still, facing him that when [...]

“We hear a great deal today about motivation, goal-setting, and developing a game plan.  Much of what we read and hear is insightful and needed.  And we all know that getting off the dime is often a Herculean task.  Starting well is Plan A, no doubt about it.
But what we don’t hear much about is [...]

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I was sent this e-mail, too good not to share:
Bob Hope
May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003
ON TURNING 70  “You still chase women, but only downhill”.
ON TURNING 80  “That’s the time of your life when even your birthday
suit needs pressing.”
ON TURNING 90  “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost
more than the cake.”
ON TURNING [...]

Stephan Baker and Heather Green in a Business Week article say,
Blogs are different. They evolve with every posting, each one tied to a moment. So if a company (or church) can track millions of blogs simultaneously, it gets a heat map of what a growing part of the world is thinking, about, minute by minute. [...]

I was in a church the other night that had a banner hanging on the wall with this on it: 
M.O.V.E.
Maximize
Optimize
Visualize
Evangelize
And so with this thought in mind, “Let’s get a M.O.V.E. on!”

The most destructive habit…………………………Worry
The greatest Joy…………………………………Giving
The greatest loss……………………Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work…………………..Helping others
The ugliest personality trait…………………Selfishness
The most endangered species……………..Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource…………………..Our youth
The greatest “shot in the arm”………………Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome…………………….Fear
The most effective sleeping pill…………….Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease………………..Excuses
The most powerful force in life……………………..Love
The most dangerous pariah……………………..A gossiper
The world’s most [...]